Going to church….get me my piece

On Sunday mornings when I get ready for church, the usual things that I think of bringing to church aside from my purse generally include a bible and perhaps a bottle of water. Never would I think that bringing a gun to church would be okay, but hey maybe I am out of the loop. After all I do attend one of those more liberal churches, of course that was not always the case…considering I have spent a lot of time in Baptist and Pentecostal churches I am pretty familiar with how my more strict brothers and sisters in Christ think …then again, I stopped attending those churches back when we are under the Bush regime so maybe things have changed. Ya know…we got that damn darkie in the White House.

Check out this piece….seems Ken Pagano the pastor of one New Bethel Church in KY, just hosted a bring a piece to church day. Oh, I meant bring a gun to church but considering piece is slang for gun, I think it’s more fitting. Call me crazy, but church is supposed to be a peaceful place. I cannot think of anything less peaceful than going into God’s house with guns. In fact considering Jesus himself threw folks out of the temple for selling in the temple (Matt21:12-13), I can’t believe he would be none to pleased with some of the folks these days who call themselves Christians which implicit in that name is the fact they supposedly follow Jesus.

Lately I find myself as I recently wrote growing increasingly weary of so-called Christians. Reading the New Testament there is nothing there that I have read that leads me to believe that Jesus was a man that would be down with bringing guns to churches, while Pagano states not all Christians are pacifists, was not Jesus a man of peace? Heck, in Matthew Ch 26, when Jesus was down to his last hours on earth….when one his own crew pulled out a sword to strike the servant of those who would betray Jesus, Jesus states “Put your sword, in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” (Matt 26:52). One of Jesus’ own was ready to use a piece and here Jesus was saying nahhhh, lets not do that.

So how does one who claims to love Jesus stray so far from his teachings? Because we as humans decide we are going to do what we want and say the Big guy told us, then again these same people will fight hard against issues such as abortion and gay rights.

As far as Pagano and his crew they believe that because this country was founded at a time when carrying a piece was a good idea that it’s still a good idea now….newsflash times have changed.

I’m sorry but folks of this ilk are just one of many reasons that I feel Christianity is losing its cachet here in the good US of A. Folks are seeking spirituality and peace in these crazy times but guys like Pagano are making it easy to just bypass Christianity and look at other faith traditions . After all, I don’t know about you but the idea of praying and holding hands with a guy strapped to do battle does not leave me with a peaceful feeling and if I need a piece, well Norm’s Guns and Ammo is not too far from me and I won’t even need to hear a sermon. Just go in and buy my piece.

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June 28, 2009

Danielle

And see now that article right there is one of the reasons why I will never live down south. I think that now Obama is president all the crazy white ppl have come out of hiding. Don’t get my wrong we have our nutterbutters here in Maine. But they are “quiet” crazy. Keep to themselves crazy. Yes a whole town might disappear because some Stephen King craziness might happen, but it’s far and few in between. Even in the middle of bumfuck Maine, I don’t feel uncomfortable. I don’t know how southerners do it. It’s feels so heavy down there to me and the longer I stay up North the more I don’t want to venture down past Maryland.

June 28, 2009

blackgirlinmaine

I agree with you, most of my peeps are wondering why the heck I am still here but like you said overall folks keep to themselves. Its my experience that once the locals know you live in your town, they by and large leave you be.

Even the crazy Obama hating white folks tend to keep their craziness to themselves, though down in my area it was definitely Obama nation. The McCain-Palin folks stuck out like a sore thumb.

Having been down south and having family down south, whike I do miss having more of us around, you couldn’t pay me to live in the south.

June 29, 2009

La Bella Noire

I live in Maryland and I have no desire to live any farther south than this. I don’t know how much of that has to do with the fact that I’m a New Yorker and not wanting to live more than 3 hours from there or if it’s something deeper than that.

As far as guns in church go, my husband is a cop and carries his piece everywhere we go but even he can’t bring himself to take it in the sanctuary. Some things are best left outside. Is nothing sacred anymore?

June 29, 2009

Blackgirlinmaine's Spousal Unit

Guns. Church. Dear Lord. These people don’t think twice about bringing instruments of violence into the house of God now…it was bad enough when they brought violence to homes, clinics, etc. What, are they trying to make sure everybody is strapped if the “Holy Ghost” suddenly directs the preacher to lead a mob to the nearest Planned Parenthood location and kill ’em all?